Falcon Crest Saved America
Broadcasting into the early morning hours, host Walter Sterling tackles everything including why modern streaming destroyed the "common campfire". The show blends late-night banter, strange caller theories, and deep dives into marriage dynamics, "gray divorce," and dating blunders. Expect hot takes on culture and parenting, celebrity gossip involving flight-attendant biting incidents and $200,000 facelifts, and a hilarious interview with a retired Catholic priest about papal news and forbidden biblical books. It is an eccentric, fast-paced mix of nostalgia, news, and late-night chaos.
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Exciting to be with you. Live radio the way it
was meant to be. Live radio the way it was
meant to be. Listen, you and I hear a lot
of crap all the time about how our nation's divided.
We're not coming together. We've never been more divided. That's
my favorite. We've never been more divided. We've never been
more divided. Well, I don't know about you. Well, no,
I do know about you. I know that most of
you were around during the Civil War, but I would
suggest that the nation was more divided then, a lot
more divided then. But also in the late 1960s, families
were torn apart by hair. The son's hair grew too
long to try to look like a beetle, alienated from
his father, alienated from his grandfather. It was It was
a divided country because of hair. And it was a
divided country because of the belief in the Vietnam War.
In the late 1960s, you had parents who remembered the
Korean War. Some remembered World War II. And they viewed
it as their patriotic duty to go to war for
the country, Korea, World War II. Now it's Vietnam. No
one has any idea what that war is about. Don't
have a freaking clue what to do. But the kid's like,
I'm not going over there. Are you crazy? And the
mother would go, yeah, yeah, he's not going. But the
father would go, I went to Korea. If you're going
to be a man, if you're going to be patriotic,
you have to go. You have to volunteer. And there
was a draft because nobody wanted to go. The Army,
the Navy, the Marines, they came up with a draft.
And every year at random town in New Jersey, they
would pull out numbers like bingo and announce who's going
to die. And then they put it up on a board.
If you have this birthday, you're first to go. If
you have this birthday, you're second to go. Do you
remember this? I hope not. It was horrible. They usually
got down to 10. They usually got down to the
number 10. The first 10 people went to war, went
to Vietnam, unless you were in college or unless you
had money or you were married with a kid. There
were a lot of exceptions, or unless you had flat feet. Really, finally,
it did some good. But I would suggest that our
problem of being a so-called divided country today is not
because of Trump. It's not because of Trump. Stop it.
Just stop being stupid. It's not about Donald Trump. It's
not about Hillary or any of that crap. That's all
stuff made up by news networks, and the editorial page
on the newspapers. All right, well, nobody... Let me clear
this up for you. Nobody reads the editorial page of
any newspaper anywhere in the world. Why they do that,
why they perform that circular sexual act, I don't know.
But there's no place in the world that people read
the editorial page. And then this show... Hold on to this. Hey, Mr. Advertiser, hey...
This show has more listeners right now in New York, St. Louis, Chicago, WGN,
than the cable news networks have viewers in those cities.
When I see the numbers on the cable news networks,
I'm like, a radio station program director would be fired
if he generated those numbers. If she got numbers like that,
they'd be fired. Big talk stations, big hit music stations,
far more audience in their city than any cable news
network has audience in their cities. It's really not that important.
It's only important who follows this, who pays attention to those.
You ready? Newspaper editors, news directors of television stations, the
three or four news directors left of radio stations. There
are very few radio stations that have news directors. It's shocking.
Et cetera, et cetera. They all talk to each other.
They are in the bubble. They are in the bubble.
And that's no source of divisiveness. The divisiveness comes from
something else. There's no Falcon Crest. There's no Dallas. There's
no dynasty. There's no prime knots landing. There's no prime
time soap opera. There's no leave them at the edge
of the cliff stories to get people talking the next
day at work. Did you see that? Did you see
what happened on Dallas last night? Oh, my God. Well,
that brought the country together. Now, why isn't there anything
like that? Because the paradigm has shifted. SAT word. The
paradigm has shifted. You and I today have our own
TV channel, and it's one-on-one with our laptop or our phone,
and we watch whatever we want, whenever we want, on
our phones and our laptops, and nobody else watches it
with us. When was the last time you watched TV
with your spouse or your girlfriend or both? When was
the last time you did that? Rare, very rare. Now
and then I'll say to my wife, I'll say, why
don't we watch this? Shouldn't we watch this together? It's
usually the John, whatever John Ham's in. We'll say, okay,
let's watch this. Your friends and neighbors. Let's watch your
friends and neighbors together. Let's watch. Hacks. Let's watch hacks together.
I can get her to watch two or three things
with me a year. And then we'll miss a couple
episodes together. And then she'll become obsessed with series that
I'm like, why are you watching the original run of
Star Trek at this point in your life? Why are
you watching Star Trek Enterprise at this point in your life?
Magic 8-Ball? No answer. But that's what it is. We
are not brought together by a big TV show. There's
no big TV shows that are bringing us together, not
because there aren't some that could, but because we don't
need them. There are Thousands of streaming shows. And there
are hundreds of television networks. There used to be, you know, four.
Now there are hundreds of television networks, each catering to
a very narrow niche. And you and I can find
our niche, Storage Wars, Bikini Girls. We can watch them
ourselves one-on-one alone. That is what has divided our country.
There is no common campfire. There is no urban campfire
for us to sit around and look at and think, wow,
you know, this is great. Let's share this with each other. Mary,
you're on the other side of midnight. Welcome. 800-848-9222. Mary, congratulations.
You're our first call tonight.
Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
Speaker 11: Thanks.
Speaker 8: I know. mean to be a pest calling, but I
just had to say that for Falcon Crest, there was
another famous person. For those of us who follow Dark Shadows,
it was David Selby.
Speaker 2: David Selby, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 8: Who played Quentin Collins. Yes, and he started out as
the villain, and he ended up as the hero. And
he went off with Susan Sullivan, so it was thrilling.
Speaker 2: Maggie.
Speaker 8: I mean, the character, yes. Oh, and for newspapers, at
the end of the 90s, I was the first to
go to. That was the first thing I went to
was editorials page, because I loved that. That's probably why
I'm a misfit. But that was when.
Speaker 2: Mary, that was 26 years ago, Mary.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know. I figured that was... That long day's
gone by now.
Speaker 2: You can't even get a newspaper now. Where the hell
do you get a newspaper? Right?
Speaker 8: The Washington Post at that time was very even-handed. So
that was during the Clinton era. And I couldn't afford television,
but I could get the Washington Post for a quarter and...
And also listen to the radio. So I was very
well informed. And the Washington Post every day on the
editorial page, it had one half was one side and
the other half was the other side. And if it
was all one side one day, the next day it
would be the other side. And when I moved back here,
I was looking forward to getting the New York Times.
And what happened is every day I had it delivered,
and I kept looking for the other half of the
paper because it was all one-sided.
Speaker 2: It was all one-sided. Mary, you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right.
Thank you for the call, Mary. I'm glad she said that.
It's not my imagination. Newspapers used to be vaguely more balanced, right?
They used to have... Vaguely more different points of view,
like the Miami Herald would have the Miami Herald point
of view, and they would quote the Canadian newspapers. The
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We go to 5 in the morning. That's right, 5
in the morning. Tonight we have a lot to go over,
many things to discuss, and I want to discuss them
with you. I don't want to sit here alone. Now,
Out of the Shadows, this is this new book by
Jay Stratton. Out of the Shadows, a government guy, says
that he has seen aliens, UFO life. We're going to
go over all the revelations that he has revealed coming
up in a little while, coming up in just seconds. Plus,
we're going to go over dumb things people do on
their first dates to make sure that they don't have
a second date. And then there are amazing information about divorces.
And one of the amazing informations about, did I just
say amazing informations? That's what I said, amazing informations about divorces.
The trends in divorces are surprising. I studied this very
carefully because I'm a professional talk show host. The percent
of first marriages ending in divorce after 10 years, the
highest was 1970s. In the 1970s, you know, the disco era,
when people were just discovering drugs, and there was free
love and free sex, and key parties. Key parties. I'll
explain in moments. 30% of divorces took place in the
70s after 10 years. So 30% of all marriages ended
in divorce in the 70s, and it was after they
were married for 10 years. This has gone down every
year since. Between 2010 and 2012, only 18% of marriages
ended after 10 years. Big drop. Then, you should be
scared of this, there's a new phenomenon known as gray divorce.
Gray divorce. Where couples divorce when they are 50 or older.
Demographers have found that despite divorce rates falling overall, older
married adults have less stable marriages than in years past.
Older adults over 50 have less stable marriages than at
any time in history. Why is that?
Speaker 9: 800-848-9222.
Speaker 2: You might know somebody over 50.
Speaker 12: 800-848-9222.
Speaker 2: I think there are a couple of reasons for this.
The stigma of getting divorced, that's gone away. There's no
more stigma to getting a divorce. Get a divorce, fine.
Got a new car? Yeah, I got a new car.
We got carpet for the rec room? Yeah, we got carpet. Oh,
and we got a divorce. No stigma anymore. Men and
women have less of the bonding need for each other financially, economically,
psychologically than they ever did before. And the final thing is,
and this has always been true, that people hit a
point where they're like, OK, we're going to be together
until the kids are out of the house. They don't
need the trouble of us getting a divorce. They stay
together until the kids get out of the house. Voila,
you're over 50. Now we can get a divorce and
we'll be best friends and we'll explain it to the
kids and they'll be fine. Does that make sense? This
is what I told my kids about divorce, because when
kids learn about divorce, it's very important what parents say
to make them not imagine every day that every time
you and your spouse have an argument that you're about
to get a divorce. Kids get really nervous when they
hear parents argue if they know about divorce, especially if
they've just learned about divorce. Then it's like, you know,
or maybe a friend down the street or one of
their best friend's parents had a divorce. This is what
I told my children. I looked at each of these daughters,
my three daughters, now ages 15, 21, and 23. And
around when they were 12 or 13, I looked at
them and I said, let me explain to you about
divorce and your mother and I. We are never getting
a divorce. We are never getting a divorce for one reason.
we need to keep an eye on you forever. And
they'd go, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. And they'd run away.
And I'd say, we're going to keep an eye on
you forever. And they'd run away. But that's true. I
even said that to my wife. I said, we can't
get a divorce. We have to keep an eye on them.
Who's going to keep an eye on them if we
don't do that? These are horrible children. Terrible. There was
a conversation earlier tonight about a poor kid in England
who who died, went into the tiger cage at some zoo.
Turns out it was a special needs kid. Turns out
the kid should have never been alone. Parents are being
chastised for leaving this kid alone.
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 2: I have very strong feelings about what parents are supposed
to do and not. It starts with kidnapping, abuse at school,
all of that stuff. That's the responsibility. Once a kid's 23, 24,
jumps into a tiger cage, Kid made a decision. Natalie
in Queens at 800-848-9222. Congratulations. Welcome to the other side
of midnight.
Speaker 12: Hi. Hi.
Speaker 13: I listened to what you just said, that the gray
marriages have a higher incidence of divorce than.
Speaker 8: In the past.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 13: And I said, I have one word, a theory. It's Viagra.
And what happens is, you know, this wasn't available way
back in the day, decades ago. And you have some
wives who may be interested in rekindling their romantic lives
and some who aren't. And I believe that that's one
of the reasons. I'm not saying it's the only reason,
but I believe that it's probably one of the many reasons.
Speaker 2: One of the many reasons that the man seeks a
divorce or the woman?
Speaker 13: I would say the man more than the woman.
Speaker 2: I believe you're right. It makes total sense, perfect sense.
Now he doesn't just have to hide in the house
with the same woman that he knew when he was 20.
He doesn't have to explain himself. That's a very interesting theory.
I appreciate that. Do you have any other deep thoughts tonight, Natalie?
Speaker 13: No, I have never called before, but it just popped
in my head, and I think that it's a major
factor right now. Men want to relive their youth, and women,
when they get older, they see life differently. And they're
past that stage, a lot of women. And then they
seek that comfort and that joy elsewhere. And that leads
to divorce.
Speaker 2: Natalie, which part of Queens? No, it's a great opinion.
Makes perfect sense. Natalie, what part of Queens are you in?
Speaker 13: Howard Beach.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy your weekend. Take it easy. I
appreciate you listening. I appreciate you being a first-time caller.
Thank you for listening to The Other Side of Midnight 800. 848-9222,
800-848-9222 with Walter Sterling here every night from 1 a.m.
to 5 a.m. It's a spectacular radio show. It's what
it was supposed to be, always supposed to be. She
just talked about orgasms, right? Yeah, that's what I thought.
What did I do?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 3: Oh, there.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 12: And then?
Speaker 2: See, now I have to start it again. I never
get this right. I just never get it right. I
don't know.
Speaker 11: It was weird.
Speaker 6: At first it felt icky, and then it was sort
of okay.
Speaker 13: And then.
Speaker 11: I started getting really hot, and then I started shaking.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: It was weird. It just felt like an explosion.
Speaker 2: Some of Blair, who exploded on an American Airlines plane
earlier in the week, Selma Blair, who, what'd she do?
She bit a flight attendant. She bit a flight attendant. Now,
if you want to meet the FBI, if you don't
want to have to waste, if you want to get
an appointment with the FBI, the fastest way to do
that is to bite a flight attendant in flight. Because,
you know, there's nothing that they love more than misbehaving
in an airplane. Now, this is not the first time
that actress Selma Blair has acted up. This has happened
like nine months ago. Now, why is this? She has Parkinsonism.
We'll discuss that in a moment. And she was off
her meds. And I'm guessing on a long flight from L.A.
that there may have been alcohol involved. And she bit
a flight attendant. There's no faster way to get the
FBI's attention, the Air Marshal's attention, local law enforcement, national
law enforcement, you want attention, you bite a flight attendant.
Selma Blair. The thing about this story.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it was weird.
Speaker 11: I mean, at first it felt icky, and then it
was sort of okay.
Speaker 6: And then.
Speaker 11: Then I started getting really hot, and then I started shaking, and.
Speaker 2: Oh, Selma, Selma.
Speaker 6: And it's, I don't know, it was weird. It just
felt like an explosion.
Speaker 7: But a good one.
Speaker 2: The thing that I don't understand is how many newspapers,
magazines telling this story and they keep saying an A-list actress.
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Calling Selma Blair an A-list actress. I think the last
time Selma Blair was in a movie, a picture, a
TV show of note was 20 years ago. Cruel Intentions.
That's where this is from. It's from Cruel Intentions. But
they're referring to her as an A-list actress. She also
has Parkinsonism. Parkinsonism, God help her. Parkinsonism is, it appears
as though you have Parkinson's, but you don't. You have
all the symptoms of it, but you don't actually have
the disease or the syndrome. You don't have any of it.
You just have the symptoms. And there's one or two
medications you take, and it's managed. But what's curious to
me is it's usually caused by a medication. It is
usually caused by the side effect of a medication, and
she still has Parkinsonism. And I wonder what medication caused
her to have Parkinsonism, not that I did too well
in medical school.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was weird.
Speaker 11: At first it felt icky, and then it was sort
of okay. And then I started getting... really hot.
Speaker 6: And then I started shaking. And I don't know, it
was weird. It just felt like an explosion.
Speaker 3: But a good one.
Speaker 2: Divorce. The statistics on divorce are really interesting because there's
been about a 40% decline of today's marriages will end
in divorce, a decline. Much of this caution surrounding marriage
comes from those who've personally witnessed broken vows or experienced
the fallout that results. Prior to the divorce revolution, less
than a third of marriages ended in divorce. But the
cultural transportation, the cultural transformation in the 1960s and 1970s
radically changed the stability of American unions. It's from such
marriages formed during the heyday of hippies through the MTV era,
that we get the idea that 50% of marriages end
in divorce. That is not true. 50% do not end
in divorce. It's 40%, and it keeps going down. But
if mom and dad had a divorce, there's no stigma
in your head. You're going to get a divorce if
there's a bad day. The primary reason for a divorce
today is.
Let's see. I had a cool chart. The primary reason...
Hold on. It's not infidelity. It is not infidelity, which
I always find amazing. Men don't cheat. Men get divorces
because they want a soft landing. Men get divorces because
life with that woman is too hard. The second most
common reason for divorces is bickering. They're just always arguing,
always arguing. And one day it hits them and they go,
why are we doing this? Why are we staying with
each other? It makes no sense. And that's why they
get a divorce. And the last reason, one of the
least reasons, is somebody cheats. That's the last reason. Men
don't get divorces for sex. Men don't cheat for sex.
Men cheat to have a woman they respect and like
tell them that they're wonderful. Make no demands on them.
Great to see you. That's incredible what you did at
work today. I'm very impressed with you. Thank you for
helping me. Thank you for carrying that out. They thank them.
As a marriage progresses, men encounter the criticism machine, the
critique machine. As marriage progresses, more and more of the
things they do are not okay. As a marriage progresses,
more and more more and more times they find themselves
being criticized rather than thanked. That at some point, there's
a flashpoint where a man's like, you know, I'm mostly
hearing criticism. My wife comes down and she says, why
did somebody move this? My wife comes downstairs and she says,
who said this was okay? Who said you could put
this here? You move something big, bring something in from
the garage, take something out to the garage, take out
the garbage. You'd never hear a thanks. Over time, it
gets to the point in many marriages where that is
all a guy hears. He doesn't hear a thanks. He
doesn't hear, I appreciate what you're doing. He doesn't hear,
this is great. I'm very happy. I can't believe what
you achieved at work. They don't hear any of it.
And at that point, Any woman who comes along and
is nice to your husband, compliments him, flatters him, tells
him he's terrific, for a man, that is better than sex.
Speaker 7: Masculinity is under attack, and I think this is one
of the biggest detrimental things that's ever happened to society,
and it's disgusting to watch play out.
Speaker 10: Let's just be honest. masculine men have become a threat
people have become uncomfortable with masculine men and i'm not
really sure why because it's the masculine men who built
this world and who are the reason we're here living
so comfortably to this day you know men are constantly
being told that the traits that make them masculine are
toxic where that's just ridiculous and if anything the modern
day woman is much more toxic naturally in her day-to-day
life than most men i've ever met Dominance has now
become abusive for some reason, when in reality, dominance is
necessary for efficiency. functioning in a beautifully synchronized society. Men
are dominant creatures.
Speaker 7: Members of society, because they are stronger, they are more competent,
they are more logical. They're better fighters, better thinkers, better leaders.
There's a reason that they're dominant.
Speaker 2: I have a phone number and I'm live. I'm Walter Sterling.
I'm at 800-848-9222. 800-848-9222. The definition of feminism. Different. Evolving.
Speaker 9: Feminism is a depopulation agenda. Feminism promised to liberate women.
But what did modern feminism actually sell us? that ending
the life growing inside us is empowerment, that giving countless
men access to our bodies is sexual liberation, that marriage
and motherhood are oppressive, but spending our best years building
someone else's company is freedom, that depending on a husband
is dangerous. But depending on an employer, child care system,
and government is independence. Feminism has created a culture in
which motherhood is treated as a burden. Large families are
viewed as irresponsible, and having children is framed as an
obstacle to personal fulfillment. So it is no surprise that
as a result, birth rates have declined across many Western societies.
Feminism did not free women. It separated us from our femininity,
devalued motherhood, weakened the family, and convinced women that becoming
more like men would make us happy.
Speaker 2: I think the leaders of feminism... in the late 1960s
and early 1970s, the women who were the leaders of
that and persuaded hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of women,
that it was better to go to work than to
stay at home and raise the kids. I don't think
any of them had children. I keep thinking about who
was pushing that agenda. I don't think any of those
women had children. I have always thought, and I'm not
saying this I'm saying this because I believe it. I'm
saying it because it's just common sense. It is basic
common sense. Having a kid is a miracle for dad
and mom. You see, I'm a father, and I'm not
holding myself up as something wonderful. I am something wonderful
as a talk show host, maybe one of the greatest
talk show hosts ever lived. But I digress. I believe
that being a father is a grand, great thing. It
is the best thing I have ever done. When needed,
which is quite often in my situation, I will always
put the needs of my children ahead of anything else,
anything else that I do. Oh, I have to do
this for my kid. Of course I will do that
for my kid. Because the kid can't get the glass
off the shelf themselves when they're eight. The kid needs
the dad. The kid needs the mom. This is common sense.
I don't know why this has become a revelation. It
has become a revelation in our culture. I am not
a baby daddy. Interestingly, I don't know any baby daddies.
I know they exist, but I don't know any of
them personally. The fathers I know are really happy being fathers,
and they do their job. It's handled. It's done. That's
what we do. That's what we do. And when in doubt,
we take care of the kids. I don't view this
as babysitting. I view it as being a father. Kid
needs food? Okay, great. I'll make the food. Whatever the
kid needs, that's what I'm there to provide. And I
do it with mom. Why is this common sense? Why
is this being presented as a revelation? It's not a revelation.
Too often, though, the default position in many cultures, many
parts of our country, many of our traditions is mom
goes to work. And that's better than mom staying at home.
That's crazy talk. We are not a nation of feminists. Oh, yes,
we are. No, we're not. I'll tell you how you'll
know if we're a nation of feminists. We're a nation
of feminists if a man can easily look at his
wife and say, you know what? You're making a lot
of money. You're doing just fine. Let's do this. Why
don't you stay home? No, I'm sorry. I looked at something. Walter,
I can't digress for one second. I'll stay home. You
go to work. You're making a lot of money. You
got the big title. You like that job. You enjoy it.
I really would much prefer to stay home and take
care of the children. That's what I would enjoy. At
which point, a true feminist would say, oh, no problem.
Go ahead and do that. That's not what she's going
to say. Would you say that? Would you say that
to your husband? If your husband said, Here's the deal.
You make a lot of money. I want you to
stay home. You go to work. You go to work
and I'll stay home. I'll raise the kids. I'll take
care of all domestic things. Go and enjoy your career.
I hope you get promoted because we could use more
money already talking like a wife. There you go. If
that ever happened across the country in every household, that
would be all right for mom to go to work.
and dad to stay home without anybody blinking, without any
notes from the in-laws, any conversations about, you know, I
don't know.
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 2: A feminist would be able to do that without hesitation.
It's common sense. Here's my phone number, 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222. It
is interesting. We're at a moment in history where the
divorce rate is going down, and people are saying, are
getting divorced sooner. While the divorce rate is going down,
people are also getting more divorces in the fifth year
of marriage rather than the tenth year. They're making the
decision much faster now, and therefore the divorce rate is
going down. I don't know why the divorce rate is
going down. Oh, yes, I do. I'm sorry. I do
know why the divorce rate is going down. People are
getting married later. They're much older. They're 10 years older
today getting married than they were 20 years ago. There's
the fancy socialist math. You ready? More people are waiting
until they're over 30 to get married than 10, 20
years ago, which is really smart. The reason most marriages,
in my opinion, don't work. No, I'm sorry. The reason
why marriages don't work, 40% of the marriages don't work,
is because people marry before they're ready. Not necessarily the
wrong person. Every one of us has a marriage clock.
Inside of us, we have a clock. And if you
get married before the little clock goes off and says, okay,
you can get married, it won't work. But if you
wait until the marriage clock goes off and you go, oh,
now I'm ready to get married, then you are ready
to get married. And whoever you marry at that point
will probably work. And if you marry somebody before the
marriage clock goes off, I promise you it isn't going
to work. But everybody's different. Most people's marriage clock is
not going to go off until they're over 30. That's
the wait. That's what you need to wait for. 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.
Coming up, we're going to talk about Denise Richards and
her astonishing $ 200, 000 facelift. No, I didn't say her $ 200, 000
swimming pool. Her $ 200, 000 facelift. We're going to talk about
Kai Trump being in the hospital. Poor thing. And then
we have to re-explore the Kelly Clarkson scandal. The Kelly
Clarkson scandal. How she was viewed as being not wealthy
enough to buy a $ 15, 000 toy. $ 15, 000 toy. And then
she had a hissy fit. Her staff is now one
by one coming out and saying, well, you know, she
isn't quite as nice as she seems. And In my opinion,
if I saw Kelly Clarkson and didn't know who she was,
based on how she dresses, I'm being very catty, based
on how she dresses and her hair, I might think
she couldn't afford a $ 15, 000 toy either. And then the
final thing, which no one has explored in this very
serious Kelly Clarkson story, what no one has explored is, well,
could she afford it? Did anybody explore to see if
Kelly Clarkson actually had $ 15, 000 to do this? I don't
know if anybody's done the digging, the deep dive. 800-848-9222.
Walter Sterling, The Other Side of Midnight from the Red
Apple Audio Networks.
Speaker 1: The Other Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling. The Other
Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling.
Speaker 2: Walter Sterling, The Other Side of Midnight. 800-848-9222, live radio,
you and me, the best time of day on The
Great Shift with Fr.
Speaker 6: Jim Drucker, Catholic priest.
Speaker 8: You're 102 years old, Fr.
Speaker 12: Drucker? Yeah, I'm coming up on 103, and I'm a misfit.
Come on.
Speaker 2: Did you know that Chuck Berry just had his 100th birthday?
Speaker 12: Oh, God bless him. My God, is he great. He
does a duck walk, and he's just a great singer.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any walking right now. Well, maybe
with a walker.
Speaker 12: Chuckle, chuckle.
Speaker 2: Now, listen. The Pope has lung cancer, and they did
surgery to remove the lower lobe of his lungs. What
does this do to the stability of the Catholic Church?
Speaker 12: A direct answer to your question would be very little,
except to be concerned about our leader, our spiritual leader,
whom we believe to be the vicar of Christ on earth.
And with today's modern medicine, I know I, at my
age of 84, take many medicines that help me do
this and do that. So they said that it was
a successful operation. They're happy with the progress. He'll be
in bed for a week. He'll recover. And he'll get
back doing his spiritual love, sharing his love of Christ
throughout the world.
Speaker 2: Do you think he was a chain smoker at a
younger point in his life when he was a greaser?
Speaker 12: I don't know for a fact that he was a greaser.
I don't know. I would think not, having gone to Loyola.
I'm sorry, God, I made him a Jesuit. Oh, Lord,
I'm going to Villanova. I can't believe I did that
on the air.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 12: Unbelievable. But anyway, I don't think he was a greaser,
but who knows? He was from Chicago. and his brother's
with us, and the brother has talked about him, and
he's just a down-to-earth man that Christ chose, as we
feel in our Catholic faith, to be the spiritual leader
of all Christians throughout the world, even non-Catholics, we believe that,
whether they like it or not.
Speaker 2: Well, the Catholic Church has long been known as an
acquirer of countries and people, so yes, I believe that
they view all people as being Under their domain. Now,
when he's under anesthesia, like with the President of the
United States, when he's under anesthesia, are there emergency orders
as to who's in charge? Do you know?
Speaker 12: I certainly do not know for a fact. One could
take a guess, I guess, but I do not know. No,
but I would suspect... Like that there's a vice president
in Rome. There is what we call the ranking in
the pyramid setting would be the Pope being not only
the vicar of Christ on earth, but we consider him also.
And even Bartholomew, whom I know, was the vicar, the patriarch,
holy father of the East in Istanbul. that when he
leaves Rome, he's also the bishop of Rome, as well
as the pope, the vicar of Christ on earth, representing
Jesus Christ since the first days of Christ when he
was here. And below him, just below him in the pyramid,
would be the head of the administrative offices, as in
any diocese or archdiocese, whether cardinal, archbishop, or bishop, there
would be the chancellor in the chancery. So in Rome
would be no different. So the chancellor would take care
of any administrative paperwork matters when the bishop of Rome,
the Holy Father, leaves to go to another country. Now,
I'm sure that he's going to be careful not to
make any major decisions. He's going to come back and say,
you did what? But anyway, putting that note aside. And
the second command would be the vicar general, who is
the head of all spiritual matters and in sacraments and
in dispensations for marriages and so forth. And he would
act on that behalf for the Pope.
Speaker 2: All right. Father Jim Drucker, retired Catholic priest, 45 years
a Catholic priest. What about the Book of Enoch? When
the Pope is knocked out, could somebody say, like the
number two guy, say, you know what? We're going to
publish the Book of Enoch, which was hidden for decades, centuries, centuries,
because it revealed the fact that there are giants.
Speaker 12: The Book of Enoch is not an approved book of
the Catholic Church. Canonically, all the church fathers of the
history of our Catholic Church and faith, including the Orthodox
Church in many ways, have so proclaimed the books that
are to be included in the Holy Bible of the
New Testament.
Speaker 2: But is it because it refers to UFOs and giants
and that the other Catholics don't like Ethiopia?
Speaker 12: No, I would simply say that the church fathers, the
bishop would gather together in a council, an ecumenical council,
and they would look at the facts as well as
the spirituality. And some of these books had Jesus Christ,
Son of God, zapping his childhood friends because they didn't
do what he wanted. Zap, you're gone, disappeared, sucked away.
Speaker 2: Isn't that a good plan? It saves time. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Well, all kidding aside and chuckling aside, it's not a
book that's approved by the Catholic Church. And I certainly
would agree. And I think anybody of any common spiritual
sense would realize that there's a reason for this. And
I do not have the power, nor does any person
except for the Church Fathers.
Speaker 2: What's the reason that the Book of Enoch has been
banned by the Catholic Church?
Speaker 12: I have to admit and confess, pardon the pun, that
I have not read that recently. I do know that
many parts of the book is incorrect in its theology
and incorrect in its premise, and it's not approved by
the Catholic Church, by the canons of the Catholic Church.
Speaker 2: Well, you've said that several times. Therefore, they must be
very afraid of what it says.
Speaker 12: Well, you give me some specifics. Because I've not read
the book for a long time. I have read it,
but not for a long time. I know the things
in it that I've read are really outlandish. And I
do not believe that it was divinely inspired, which is
what the Holy Father said. and the Bishop of the
Church when they gather together. It has to be a
book that's divinely inspired to be included in the Holy
Scriptures of the New Testament.
Speaker 2: Father Jim Drucker, do you have a final thought, a prayer,
a spiritual note for the Pope?
Speaker 12: I would ask everyone of any good faith, of whatever
faith you might be, to include a prayer for this man,
this human being, and for this spiritual leader of a
rather large church, many under his flock and his tending
and caring, that you would pray for him and pray
for priests, my good friends. And Walter Sterling, you're a knockout,
and thank you for allowing me to be a misfit
and The Walter Sterling Show.
Speaker 2: All right, that'll be in the promo. Thank you very much,
Father Jim Drucker, 45-year retired priest with Walter Sterling and you.
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